Magazine

July/August 2006: Oil Sucks!

Volume 40, Number 4

In this issue, Oil Sucks, and other Reasons for Taking Action on Climate Change — The Harper Government has trashed the targets of the Kyoto Protocol. Meanwhile, from the Tar Sands to Ontario’s nuclear plants, Canadians are addicted to endless supplies of affordable energy. What are the ecological consequences of a society reliant on diminishing supplies of petroleum? How are we going to get ready for a world after oil? Is nuclear power a real alternative? And who controls the remaining Canadian oil supplies anyway? The July/August issue is the first of two special editions devoted to energy, the environment and climate change.

• Regulars

• The Horowitz Paragraph
  by Gad Horowitz
• Building a Grassroots Opposition to Harper Editorial
• Labour Report
  by Geoff Bickerton
• Québec Communiqué
  by Pierre Dostie
• On the Edge
  by Lesley Hughes

• Opening Arguments

• The Power and the Peace
  by Kahentinetha Horn
• Canada’s Military Lobby
  by Steven Staples
• Satellites of War
  by Richard Sanders
• Telecom Deregulation: Three Myths
  by Vincent Mosco

• Feature: The Challenge of Peak Oil

• Responding to the Challenge of Peak Oil
  by Richard Heinberg
• Peak Oil and Alternative Energy
  by Jack Santa-Barbara
• Scouring Scum and Tar from the Bottom of the Pit
  by Petr Cizek
• Enviromental Activists Who Are Changing the World
• Nuclear Power, Not a Green Energy Source
  by Marita Moll
• Global Warming and the Threat of Ecological Catastrophe
  by Geoffrey Hughes

• All That’s Left

• Harold Innis: An Intellectual at the Edge of Empire
  by Mel Watkins
• Québec Solidaire
  by Joel Davison Harden
• Jazz and Radical Politics
  by Louis Proyect